Chromosome numbers of 30 collections representing 29 species
and 16 families of Hawaiian flowering plants are presented an d discussed. The
chromosome numbers of 24 of these species have not previously been reported.
Chromosome ...

A public controversy has arisen over the recent logging and wood chipping operation in native forest at Kalapana. I got involved at a point where the argument of dispute was whether the forest at Kalapana was unique or ...

On 14 November 1987 a biological baseline survey was conducted of the proposed access road and well site 1. The road and well site had recently been surveyed and staked; reference is made throughout this report to "stake ...

Two or three decades ago, Samoa had the highest percentage of intact native vegetation of any Polynesian archipelago. This may still be true, but since then nearly all of the forests of the lowlands (up to ca. 400 m ...

The park is important because of the native vegetation it contains. Some of the best lowland forest remaining in the archipelago is found on Tutuila. It occurs in two main areas, one within the park boundaries between ...

Callidictyon abyssorum, gen. et sp. nov., an unusual, net-forming
red alga, is described from deep-water Pacific collections made from the research
submersible Makati'i at 80-m depths on Penguin Bank, off the island
of ...

Massive tree dieback has occurred periodically in the Hawaiian
montane rain forest. The species mainly involved is Metrosideros polymorpha,
which is the prevailing upper canopy tree species throughout most of this ...

The genus Cyrtandra extends from Malaya to
eastern Polynesia, and includes some 600 species.
The writer in 1938 made collections of the flora
of Rotuma Island, an isolated, low, volcanic
island that is situated about ...

The chromosome number of 2n = 20 11 reported here is the first
determination for Hibiscadelphus giffardianus Rock and H. distans Bishop &
Herbst. An earlier report of the same number for H. hualalaiensis Rock ...

Vegetation ecology is usually divided into two broad research
areas, floristic/environmental gradient analysis and studies of vegetation dynamics.
The early influential American ecologist Clements combined the two
areas ...

A group of specimens representing 40 taxa of Hawaiian marine
algae has come to light and is among the earliest collections of Hawaiian algae.
Though only 24 of the specimens can be tallied with a list of 112 marine ...